From the course: AutoCAD Electrical Essential Training

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Use the mouse

Use the mouse

I'm staying in the WD demo project in that DEMO02.DWG file, and as you can see, we're still zoomed in on that FU207 like we were in the previous video. Now, I showed you in the previous video how to avoid that marking menu when you're right-clicking, to bring up the regular short cut menu, to go into real-time zoom and pan. Now, don't forget you've still got the good ol' mouse functionality there as well. So I can use things like a double click on the wheel, to do a zoom extents, I can still position my cross-hair over something and roll up on the wheel to zoom in, I can roll back on the wheel on the mouse to zoom out. I can also just hold down the wheel like so, and use it as a third mouse button and pan, just like you can in regular AutoCAD. I'll just double click on the wheel there to zoom extents and straighten that up. Now don't forget, that's the quickest and easiest way to navigate in an AutoCAD Electrical drawing. It's the quickest and easiest way to navigate in any AutoCAD…

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